Bio
You can find my CV here.
As an assistant professor in Cognitive Science working on AI-human Interaction at the Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan, I teach Cognitive Science, Decision-making, and Psychometrics. As a Behavioural Research Associate at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the Behavioural Economics and Design Unit, I participated in the drafting of the New Consumer Duty Act, with a particular focus on obstruction in choice (dark patterns and sludge, Thaler 2018). Before that, I worked in a commercial company collaborating with FTSE500 clients on improving diversity and researching information availability for New Consumer Duty law.
My interests span AI-human interaction, social learning, and decision-making using insights from cognitive and computer science, behavioural economics, and philosophy. In particular, I am interested in the fine interaction of AI systems with human cognitive processes.
I worked as:
Assistant Professor
Research and Data Scientist
Behavioural Science Consultant
President of Behavioural Science group
Alina Gutoreva
..with KBTU, University of Wawick, Financial Conduct Authority, NHS, BT, UNICEF, UNESCO, and other organisations on behavioural interventions to improve decision-making for diversity and wellbeing.
I have five years of teaching experience including seminar teaching, practical sessions, marking, and project work. Teaching was focused on research methods in Psychology, such as hypothesis development, conducting research and experiments, statistical analysis, and results interpretation.
My PhD thesis explored personal and social learning in risky decision-making with rare events. Experiments showed that social information counterbalances personal information we did not find social effects in one-to-one learning. This suggests that “other” is an alternative “self”, given the same environment and goal, suggesting that biases of individual behaviour and description of that behaviour to others(s) are complementary parts of subjective experiences.